Inaccurate Info Posted

ElizabethBettenhausen

Recently someone posted inaccurate info about my G-G-Aunt and her Husband.

They posted a son, born in Canada.

My G-G-Aunt and her Husband had no children. I have evidence to prove this. They never lived in Canada.

My G-G-Aunt lived mostly with or near her siblings. Eventually all of them lived together in My G-G-Grandfathers homestead. The home I grew up in and later moved back to.

I am an only child and the only descendant from my G-G-Grandpa, his brothers and my G-G-Aunt.

There may be some living relatives from another G-G-Aunt who died in the late 1800's.

I have many family photos, letters and obituaries dating back to the 1800's.

No son is mentioned in any of that info. One letter that was sent to my G-G-Aunt, shortly after her husband was killed in a sawmill accident, mentions that it would be nice if she had a little boy like her Brother in Law did. Her husband died in 1892. This unknown child was supposedly born about 1888.

How can this inaccurate info be removed?

I contacted the poster many times and they have not responded.

Thank you

Julia Szent-Györgyi

The Family Tree on FamilySearch is open-edit: you can remove the inacurrate relationship yourself. Go to either the child's or your g-g-aunt's profile Details page, scroll down to Family Members, and click the Edit (pencil) button after the child's name. On the resulting popup, click the Remove or Replace (trashcan) button after the child's name (because that will deal with both parents at once), then follow the prompts to Remove the parent-child relationships.

The child was probably added to this couple because the names matched; there are a lot of beginning genealogists who subconsciously assume that two people with exactly the same names and relationships to each other must be the same people, even if they lived in different decades or countries. It doesn't help when FS's (or any other genealogy website's) hinting system suggests records based on name resemblances, without consideration for the dates or places.

I happen to have an illustration of just how wrong "same names, same people" can be: two examples where the son who was named after Dad married a woman with the same full name as Mom.

(Three of those four couples are direct ancestors of mine.)